Elisabet Ney. [1900]-

Ney, Elisabet, 1833-1907

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From the Handbook of Texas Online : Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney, one of the first professional sculptors in Texas, was born in Münster, Westphalia, on 1833 January 26 to Johann Adam and Anna Elizabeth (Wernze) Ney, a Catholic stonecarver and his wife. Ney enrolled at the Munich Academy of Art in 1852 and, after her graduation two years later, moved to Berlin, where she studied with Christian Daniel Rauch, one of the foremost sculptors in Europe in the mi...

Elisabet Ney Museum

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Texas Commission on the Arts

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The Texas Fine Arts Commission was created in 1965 by the 59th Legislature through House Bill 273 as a temporary agency. The 60th Legislature passed Senate Bill 21 in 1967, establishing the Commission as a permanent agency. The name of the Commission was changed in 1971 (House Bill 1784, 62nd Legislature) to the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and to its present name, Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) in 1979 (House Bill 637, 66th Legislature). The Commission is compos...